Chapter 3678: Better Than Ever

To transplant the mother of pu tea, Ye Chen took the soil out of the ring and poured it into the space enclosed by the cyan stone. When there was still less than two meters to the top surface, he took the mother of pu tea out of the space and, using spiritual energy to lift it, gently placed it in the center of the soil.

As the roots and rhizomes of the mother of pu tea were placed in, Ye Chen used more soil to completely bury the roots and rhizomes.

What he did not expect was that, after the roots and rhizomes of the mother of pu tea were covered by the soil, the originally very luxuriant leaves grew out almost an equal amount of tender green leaf buds at an extremely fast speed. As a large number of leaf buds grew out, the trunk and branches of the whole tree also instantly became visibly thicker, as if it had entered the next stage in an instant.

Ye Chen realized that this might be the cultivation realm of the mother of pu tea itself, which had grown step by step from a tea tree to crossing the tribulation. It seemed that there were countless levels and realms that needed to be broken through in between.

Lin Wan'er looked on in amazement, raising her head to look at the newly grown tender leaves, and murmured: "It seems this is the most suitable place for it. If it grows here, the speed would probably be more than a hundred times faster than outside, or perhaps in another hundred years it could cross the heavenly tribulation again."

Ye Chen smiled and said: "Whether the heavenly tribulation can strike here is still an unknown."

Lin Wan'er lightly nodded and said: "What the Young Master says is reasonable. People say that the heavenly tribulation is a one-way ticket to ascend to the immortal realm, but the cultivators who built this place back then even had the capability for interstellar migration. Perhaps their strength was far greater than that of immortals who successfully crossed the tribulation."

Ye Chen agreed and said: "I also think that, judging from their teleportation array, they and we are not beings of the same dimension. If it's just crossing one tribulation, we are probably still very far from them."

Lin Wan'er smiled and said: "However, this place is indeed very suitable for growing things. Judging by this growth speed, if medicinal herbs were grown here, the resulting herbs would definitely undergo a great qualitative change."

Ye Chen smiled and said: "Coincidentally, I still have a cauldron that can cause a qualitative change in medicinal pills. With the two buffs stacked together, the effect of the refined pills should also be stronger."

Lin Wan'er stared at the mother of pu tea and exclaimed again: "Young Master, quickly look, she has sprouted new buds again!"

Ye Chen looked up and saw that the tender green buds from just now had already visibly grown rapidly, unfurling from curled small tender buds, and their color changed from tender green to emerald green, while the original leaves had already turned dark green.

Now, the base of each leaf began to sprout a new batch of tender buds, and this time they were like wood ears, almost clustered and squeezing outward. At the base of a leaf, one would almost want to sprout seven or eight new leaf buds, making the leaf density of the mother of pu tea almost reach the point of being completely opaque.

Lin Wan'er exclaimed in amazement: "Young Master, the tender buds are growing too fast. I plan to pick some down to make tea."

Ye Chen smiled and said: "Then let me help you pick some. Do you want just the tender buds or the buds and leaves together?"

Lin Wan'er took out a clean handkerchief, spread it in her palm, reached out and pinched off some tender buds from the drooping branch tips, and said with a smile to Ye Chen: "The tenderer, the better naturally, but it should also be properly matched with some older leaves. Generally, good tea is one bud and one leaf, then one bud and two leaves or one bud and three leaves. Since the mother of pu tea grows so well, naturally we should take more tender leaves down."

Ye Chen did not know there was such a particularity, so he immediately helped her pinch off those newly sprouted tender buds from the mother of pu tea.

While pinching the tender buds, Ye Chen casually tossed one into his mouth, lightly chewed it, and felt its fresh tea fragrance and tender texture. What surprised him even more was that the spiritual energy in these newly sprouted tender buds of the mother of pu tea was much more abundant than before, and could even be said to have increased by tenfold or a hundredfold or more.

Previously, the buds and leaves of the mother of pu tea were already precious. Picking dozens or hundreds of leaves to brew tea, the spiritual energy content could prolong life and strengthen the body for ordinary people, but for Ye Chen, a cultivator, it was basically just a drop in the bucket.

But now the situation underwent an instantaneous qualitative change.

Now the buds and leaves of the mother of pu tea not only have much higher spiritual energy content, but their quantity has also increased enormously.

Stronger and more numerous—if used well, this is definitely an inexhaustible source of spiritual energy not to be underestimated.

Moreover, unlike those several thousand spirit stones, spirit stones are non-renewable resources, and there are probably hardly any left on Earth.

However, the buds and leaves of this mother of pu tea can be continuously grown.

Ye Chen speculated that after the mother of pu tea was transplanted here, the reason the spiritual energy content in its buds and leaves became so high was definitely because it absorbed the incredibly rich spiritual energy of this place.

Ye Chen has no way to verify exactly how strong or how much spiritual energy this place has, but he inferred from the cultivators who built this place and their realm and strength that, for a cultivator like himself, the spiritual energy here is almost equivalent to being inexhaustible and limitless.

He felt like he was an ant that had accidentally found a granary left behind by human civilization when it evacuated Earth. Although the granary is limited, its upper bound is so high that, to him, it is practically infinite.

The spiritual energy here is so abundant that naturally it does not mind if one more mother of pu tea consumes it together. In Ye Chen's view, facing such a vast amount of spiritual energy, the consumption rate of the mother of pu tea cannot be much greater than his own.

Moreover, what is even rarer is that the spiritual energy here originally could not be taken away by him; he could only use it here.

But the mother of pu tea is more like transforming the spiritual energy that cannot be taken away from here into another kind of spiritual energy that it can carry away. These frantically grown buds and leaves are a way for it to carry away the spiritual energy of this place, and to Ye Chen, this is naturally a good thing.

Moreover, the growth speed of these buds and leaves is indeed too fast. The two of them picking them cannot keep up with the speed at which the tender buds grow. The mother of pu tea is as if enchanted, constantly growing desperately. Those tender buds, if not picked within thirty seconds, will unfurl into small leaves; if waited a few more minutes, they can become large leaves.

During the half hour that the two of them were picking, the mother of pu tea grew at least several more batches of tender leaves. The whole tea tree has already reached an extravagant level of luxuriant branches and leaves, as if all the wheat grown on a mu of land were kneaded into one clump, overflowing.

Moreover, its trunk has already changed from bowl-mouth thickness to disk-like thickness, and its overall size has swollen by two or three times or more.

Ye Chen even felt that its root system is also growing at an extremely fast speed, and it will not be long before the root system fills the entire space enclosed by the cyan stone.

While picking tender leaves, Ye Chen sighed: "I feel this space is still too small."

Lin Wan'er smiled and said: "Don't worry, its root system will eventually clump tightly together. By then, just enlarging the cyan stone enclosure will do."

Ye Chen sighed: "The spiritual energy content of these tender buds is extremely high. For cultivators who have just comprehended the Dao, they are simply the best cultivation material. If Miss Lin could also attain enlightenment, that would be just perfect!"